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Speak for yourself, I want a better phone as in with removable battery, sd card, headphone jack.
The difference is, science is not making phones better for the consumer, but for the maker.
The science on most of this stuff is done already. Most of your requests could be implemented tomorrow. No problem.
This is not a science problem. This is a capitalism problem.
Well, batteries can still get a lot better. But yea, what’s listed isn’t technical limitations.
Sorry if I didn’t make that clear.
Yes I fully agree!!
I have a galaxy S5 that you’d be interested in then. Science already solved it and even gave it water resistance to boot.
My LG V20 does all that and more. Not sure about water resistance but that hasn’t been a problem for me since the flip phone days. There were so many options 8 years ago and now just about everything is a variation of the iPhone loadout. It’s infuriating.
My phone is almost 10 years old, and it doesn’t do much, but you know it does enough.
What you actually need is a time machine.
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Somewhat related, there is a vaccine for cats in the works meant to prevent feline chronic kidney disease. If successful it could massively increase the lifespan of domestic cats.
That killed my childhood cat. Would be awesome for future kids to not experience what I did.
Kind of seems like losing a pet is an important part of growing up tbh.
Kind of doesn’t.
I dunno accepting death as an inevitability seems important since since we otherwise struggle hard to ignore it in western culture and by extension can create a lot of suffering.
A pet doesn’t need to die for that. If you look around… Death is everywhere!
[Starts singing and dancing a musical number down the street]
Accepting death is an important part of growing up, but no animal deserves to die just to be a goddamn teachable moment
What a heartless thing to say.
That would be amazing. They can already live so long. To think, you might be able to have a cat with you for most of your adult life.
If successful it could
Wanna bet what capitalism is going to say about that?
This makes me very happy, thank you for sharing!
I’m literally having my 19 year old cat put down tomorrow due to kidney disease and I very much wish for him to feel young and healthy again. It sucks.
Sorry for your loss mate
Unpopular opinion: There are already way too many domestic cats and they are responsible for the extinction of various species, mostly birds. They are amongst the most problematic invasive species in the world. Its probably not a good idea to increase their lifespan…
Popular opinion: I love cats
In your country perhaps, cats aren’t a problem everywhere. Even the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds maintain that cats are not a major cause of bird decline (in Britain).
I’m not only talking about my country, but you’re right: The location matters. It’s a fact that cats have a noticeable impact on global biodiversity. There is an interesting article on the matter here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42766-6
Forgive me if I don’t treat Britain as an expert on biodiversity, given their history of hunting most of their wildlife to extinction.
Well the RSPB shockingly are quite against hunting animals, who’d have thought it? And careful throwing stones from your glass house, didn’t your lot hunt the bison almost to extinction the moment they landed?
Sorry, we are busy with real problems like climate change mitigation.
This comment would be more effective without the .de domain.
I’m not familiar with specific instances. Why does that matter?
He’s german and germany has been increasing fossil fuel use while dismantling nuclear powerplants.
Hopefully you’re aware that people don’t necessarily have the same views as their state.
The euros act like that about americans so I’ll act like that about them.
Are you saying all Europeans stereotype all Americans?
It’s stereotypes all the way down.
Lets not condemn people for the wrongs of their government. Otherwise we would have to exterminate the English, which is totally unacceptable you may get someone who is Cornish, Welsh, or Scottish.
I don’t consider them English. It feels rude to.
Neither do I, doesnt mean there arent any who live in the damned Anglo-Saxon lands.
sacrifices must unfortunately be made.
Nobody in Germany wants fossil fuels. It’s just that the governments in the past 15 years fucked up big time and didn’t invest in renewables enough while still holding on the plans to shut down all nuclear power plants. So they shut them down before the renewables were ready and now we are fucked. Btw although they should just have the existing power plants leave running (especially because they probably were the safest in all of Europe if not the whole world) nuclear energy is NOT the answer. If you think it is then you either were manipulated by all the nuclear power shills on Lemmy or you are a shill yourself.
I’m very sorry for supporting a clean safe energy source uwu won’t happen again sir uwu
Wrong. Fossil energy sources have been receding, especially since nuclear power has been phased out. Check it out:
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2024
Also my comment was not about energy production but (like OP’s post) about science.
So you’re from Estonia?
i dunno, 60 years would put me past being able to get a dog as i wouldn’t want to die and leave them.
I agree. As much as I hate losing a dog, they would probably be far more hurt by losing me.
Nah, they’d move on and live a full life after you’re gone. They’d probably even add new songs to their repertoire.
Considering they acted like their prayers had been answered and I was resurrected when I came back from being gone a couple of weeks last month, I don’t know about that.
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By limiting a dog’s lifespan, you force dog-lovers to purchase a new dog after a few years.
Any company innovating a long-lived dog would saturate the market quickly and go out of business for lack of demand.
The only way around this is a support contract or a subscription model.
You could lease a dog for an annual fee. The benefit is obvious to anyone with a bit of business sense: After only a year or so your customers will have bonded with “their” dog and won’t want to part with it anymore.
So you can offer the first year at a heavily discounted rate and then jack up the subscription price as much as you want, the market will bear it.And if they fail to pay their rates, just send in Kristi Noem. She’ll do what needs to be done.
Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn’t decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.
First and foremost, priorities are set by reality.
Extending a dog’s lifespan by 60 years would be a very high demand product and could be sold for much more than what smartphones cost. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.
Flying would be a very high demand service and could be sold for much more than what a train ticket costs. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.
- someone 150 years ago
I appreciate you are setting up a sort of platonic ideal of what science is but I think its important to deal with the real people and processes that science is performed by and we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we fail to acknowledge how those people and processes have often worked hand in hand with capitalist and colonial projects. We need to be introspective about how those choices have influenced the science (and the methods!) that’s been done. We, as scientists, engineers and science appreciators need to do this work so we can make different and better choices.
Who stop at 60? Immortal dogs!
This is your father’s dog. An elegant puppy for a more civilised age. Take care of it, you and your descendents, for it will outlive you all.
Oh wait, now I realised that’s basically r2d2
Oh wait, now I realised that’s basically r2d2
Is that a bad thing?
Just wait till it pukes up a lightsaber at you
R2, stop licking the lightsabers, you’ll get a hairball!
R2! Hold still while I give you this oil bath! Oh no, he’s run off to the desert again to find Old Ben.
“Captain! All the other droids died, but this little one fixed the ship and saved us!” “Be careful in the future though, it says 8 out of 9 lives left.”
R2D2 is a cat.
I think I prefer that my dog dies before I do. Being a King Charles spaniel it’ll probably just sit by my rotting corpse until it dies from hunger.
Aw, poor little guy. But that’s why you have children - they grow up and the family dog inherits them.
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Hehe. I won’t even get on a plane. If she can’t go with me, I’m not going.
They already made it possible to clone your dog, just do that! Same shit
Call him Theseus
2200 news: First military Corvette fleet in orbit around sol. Means to reach alpha centauri in a few months discovered. Dog and cat lifespan increased tenfold. Human lifespan increased tenfold
(RIP)
Humans starting with the Venerable trait is OP.
Wasteful best trait.
Some scientists actually are working on this. I haven’t read this article in particular, but it was near the top of a search.
tl;dr is that there may soon be a drug available which can extend the lives of large dogs.
“That’ll be $293,763.”
Amazing! I can’t wait until that’s reality.
I feel like we’ve already been going backwards on smartphones: Bring back replaceable batteries, keyboards, headphone ports, and IR blasters!
Replaceable batteries are coming to the EU in 2027.
Nah, keyboards can suck it. Touch keyboards work well enough and aren’t bulky.
Gonna go ahead and disagree with you there: Being able to type without looking is fucking great!
That depends on how good you are on touch keyboards. I can type pretty well without looking.
I’d like for there to be phones with keyboards available for the people who want them though, even if I personally share your opinion. I feel like the overall array of smartphones are all very bland and samey, and I wish that the people with weird, idiosyncratic preferences could live their best life.
You can’t use swipe typing on a physical keyboard 👎
Actually, a while back, BlackBerry unveiled a phone with a physical keyboard that was also a capacitive touch sensor so you could swipe type on it. Idk how well it worked though.
I don’t use swipe typing on a capacitive screen so nothing’s lost anyway
Instead of making phones thin enough to shave with, just give me a battery that could last a few days.
This has to do with all the services running in the background. Modern phones are actually extremely efficient, providing you’re not connected to push notification services and don’t have apps running in the background all the time.
Problem is that Google and Apple loooove user data and so it’s very hard to do this, impossible in the case of iOS. I have a fully google-less tablet and that things lasts many days on 1 charge.
Also scrolling on TikTok is basically the most intensive thing you can do on your phone unless you play 3d games. Lots of data being transferred, lots of effects, you KNOW it’s sucking as much data as it can out of your phone too.
What OS are you running on your tablet? I am running Graphene on my phone, and the battery isn’t bad, but I bought a Pixel specifically for the purpose and don’t have a baseline to compare it to.
and headphone jack and sd card and more buttons. flat screen
And a full-size keyboard, a trackpad, several USB slots, HDMI output…
We could call it… “the lap-top”!
arent they working on longevity though?
They sure are!
But humans (there is a dig line too actually) are complicated, furst treatments are out aleeady (works not very well, on only on 2 of the 7 base topics IIRC).
Next 10 years will be interesting.
last i heard of them there was this australian dude from harvard applying a treatment successfully to rats. where can i read more about these current ones that were released?
There are lots of biotech startups working on potentially working treatments (not like the billionaire founded ones sadly, where they mostly aim for some silver bullet treatment.), if you want a simplified recurring email information (it’s not the simplest but it gets information through IMO, I’m not a biologist for example) subscribe to fight agings newsletter; https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/
Fightaging.org also has a lot of information.
Cheers!
There is a drug called loyal in testing, someone linked to it here as well.
https://kbin.run/m/[email protected]/t/388022/-/comment/3632342
Would that I could, I’d trade years of my life to get some extra years for my dog. It’s insane to think he’s a third of the way through his lifespan already.
That is the real tragedy of having a pet. You usually outlive them. But I would suggest the alternative of them outliving you has the potential to be worse, because who knows where they might end up?
In my opinion I think it’s important to always have a plan for your pet in case you die, as you never know. I personally have a beneficiary for a portion of my 401k that will get $20k of it and my dog(s) upon my death if my husband isn’t alive at the time. It’s a person I trust and has agreed to take on the responsibility, and care for them the way I would. I know not everyone is able to leave funds for the care of their pet, but having the conversation with friends and loved ones ahead of time to see who could and would take them is important.
My mother is in her 80s and has a dog, but she also had a plan for it before she got it. I still don’t love that she got it, but at least she did that.
Dogs can offer fantastic companionship and help keep the elderly active longer. At 80, your mother could still potentially outlive the dog depending on the age/breed and both of their health! I do hope that I live to be 80 and still have a dog. Dogs, like humans, are pretty resilient. They can bounce back from grief and change. Sounds like the dog’s welfare is planned for, so I personally think it’s great! That dog might help give her more years herself!
That’s a fair point, but there are a couple of other reasons- it’s a purebread and she is one of those furbaby people who never let their dog have fun and get worked up over the tiniest thing. I once accidentally stepped on her dog’s paw and it made her do a very quick yelp and my mother literally spent five minutes checking every single leg over and over to make sure nothing is broken.
Honestly, I do want a better smartphone. Not better as in more pixels or processing power, but more features.
My P8P has a temperature sensor on it. Every phone I own moving forward is gonna need that now cuz I use it for all kinds of shit basically daily, great tool for a SMART device.
I miss IR blasters, they weren’t as useful but they had their place
I miss the short time period where volume and lock buttons were on the backs of phones.
More weird sensors and functionality that might prove useful in niche situations, please.
They keep saying they upgraded the cameras but they are still limited to the visible spectrum.
Didn’t OnePlus have a special camera which ended up being updated away because it would see through people’s clothes?
It could what?!
It sounds a lot more scandalous than it was, but yeah. I found this photo. As you can see, you can’t really see the dude’s body, but you can see the details of box underneath his shirt.
Ty for example.
I don’t know if there were any cases of that happening, but it could see through some types of plastic
I believe that was a slight visibility in the UV spectrum. Like, if the color of undergarments didn’t match the outfit, then it would glow. I don’t know much more about it.
Honestly, a UV camera/filter for the front camera would be useful for things like applying sunscreen. I’ve contemplated making a smart mirror with that type of functionality.
I miss IR blasters
Ditto. Literally the only thing I find myself using my Flipper Zero for these days. Wish more devices had this feature.
I miss my notification LED. My first android phone was a Nexus 6, and I loved that big old thing. I rooted it and made it link up to my medication tracker so it would be a different colour when I had taken medication Vs when I was due (alarms work for medication you take on a schedule, but less so for PRN meds like painkillers)
I don’t want a better smart phone I just want a resilient smartphone that doesn’t suck after 3 years
Tbf tho I am buying cheap phones so that’s kind of my own fault
I buy two-year old flagships brand new for half their original price and they last me up to 5 years, possibly more.
No. Tech is cheap. Don’t sell yourself short.
